tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 17 18:55:30 2007
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Re: suffixes on adjectival verbs
motlhbe' is in the original TKD word list.
Doq
On Nov 17, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Qang qu'wI' wrote:
> On 11/16/07, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's likely that Okrand considered {-be'} such an obviously useful
>> and
>> common suffix that he forgot that he had inadvertently disallowed it.
>
> maj. qatlho'qu'.
>
> This is not 100% what I wanted to hear, but it'll do (I think).
> Looking
> through the list that you provided, I think the only true counter-
> example
> is:
>
> wa'maH yIHmey lI'be'
> ten useless tribbles. CK
>
> For reasons unknown to me, my tlhIngan Hol mu'ghom has {motlhbe'}
> as it's
> own entry, so this one isn't really a strong counter-example:
>
> tera'ngan motlhbe' SoH
> You are an unusual Terran. PK
>
> The section I was referring to in TKD was specifically discussing the
> quality verb when used following a noun, so I don't think that rest
> apply.
>
> I guess, the counter examples seem pretty weak compared to how
> strong the
> TKD passage is, but I suspect your explanation is correct.
>
>
>